Akil Heywood, Rakeem Henry and Alfredo Paladino, who are being tried in Toronto, are contesting Aiden Pleterski’s kidnapping in December 2022. Their defense claims the abduction was staged to extort 3 million dollars from Sandeep Gupta, the Crypto King’s landlord and the owner of the Sunray group. The Crown alleges that Pleterski was abducted near the Ritz-Carlton, held for three days, tied up, beaten and burned with cigarettes before being released. However, the defense’s messages weaken Gupta’s account, notably because Pleterski was still using Sunray’s offices in the fall of 2022. Pleterski was also convicted on October 29, 2026, of fraud involving more than 5,000 dollars, after investors entrusted him with more than 36 million Canadian dollars.
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